[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] scripts/mkusers: allow users with no password value set
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat May 23 09:18:14 UTC 2015
James, All,
On 2015-05-23 06:11 +0000, James Knight spake thusly:
> > On 2015-05-22 11:36 -0400, James Knight spake thusly:
> > > The following allows a user definition to specify that a created
> user
> > > entry should not have a password value set. Original implementation
> > > allowed a user definition to provide a password value of "-" (no
> quotes)
> > > to generate a crypt-encoded empty string value. In some cases, it
> may be
> > > desired to have no value specified for a user's password. By using a
> > > value "-" for a password, no value will be set in the shadow value.
> >
> > I fail to see how that is different from using an empty password as
> > (without quotes): "="
> >
> > From man 5 passwd:
> >
> > The encrypted password field may be blank, in which case no
> password
> > is required to authenticate as the specified login name. However,
> > some applications which read the /etc/passwd file may decide not
> to
> > permit any access at all if the password field is blank.
> >
> > Thus, I believe it is safest to store an encoded empty password rather
> > than set the password field empty.
> >
> > Did I miss something?
> >
> > Of course, the manual could be updated to reflect that a password-less
> > account should use "=" in the password field.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yann E. MORIN.
>
> Logging into a session with an encoded empty password will prompt me to
> enter a password since it doesn't know the password is empty. In this
> case, I would simply just hit enter to supply an empty password and it
> would authenticate.
>
> If I alternatively set the password field blank, my login session will
> not prompt a password and will just login (since it knows there is no
> password set). This is what I'm hoping to achieve for the current target
> I'm developing.
Ah, right, that's what I missed. OK.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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